Where that New England Gothic post
my personal favorite
"Benedict Cumberbatch!"
Cry out the tumblfolk,
"Silliest dactylic
Name you could hear!"
Critical oversight -
Lost to obscurity,
Engelbert Humperdinck
Sheds one small tear.
I hate the push that you can quit addictions by pure willpower because it perpetuates the idea that people who can't have committed a moral failing of some kind. We all may know some people who did quit an addiction cold turkey, and with no aid, you may be one of them. And that's fantastic, but it is not the norm. It is more than okay to need help to quit an addiction. Relapse is also part of the process. Many people relapse several times before they are able to quit for good. Let's have compassion.
ALTnot only that but depending on the substance quitting cold turkey can kill you
ALCOHOL. It’s a very common dependence and cold turkey CAN KILL YOU. A lot of people don’t know this. Doctors can literally prescribe beer in the ER to save a life.
Be careful out there.
ALTFeeling crabby? Feast your eyes on today’s Exhibit of the Day, the Museum’s Japanese spider crab (Macrocheira kaempferi). This species is the biggest living crab and the largest arthropod in the world, measuring up to 13 ft (4 m) from the tip of one outstretched leg to another! Its diet includes dead fish, invertebrates, and algae, but it occasionally snatches live prey with its strong claws. This scavenger can be found on the seafloor off Japan’s Pacific coast, inhabiting depths of more than 984 ft (300 m). You can spot a model of one in the Museum’s Hall of Ocean Life!
Photo: The American Museum Journal, Volume IV 1904
NASA just dropped the closest image ever taken of Jupiter
@hamletthedane’s tags:
#Vincent Van Gogh is crying somewhere in the after and I’m crying just thinking about that#you knew!! you saw the patterns!! there is a whole planet painted in the oils from your brush!!#TIL that the craft Juno went as close as 4000km from Jupiter’s weather surface#for context: the craft was closer to Jupiter than NYC is to LA#which is space terms is like. basically being on the planet#holy shit
I wasn't able to find the picture op posted, so it may be fake as people in the comments are claiming, but Jupiter does still look like that!
Pictures from NASA's website:
ALTLooking for a kiss? You probably shouldn’t ask the sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus). This jawless fish has a suction-cup mouth ringed with hooked teeth and survives off the blood of its prey. It uses its sharp tongue to pierce flesh and secretes an enzyme to prevent blood from clotting. Growing up to 2 ft (0.6 m) long, this species is a parasite that feeds on fish and marine mammals. Typically found in the Atlantic Ocean, lampreys introduced to America’s Great Lakes in the early 20th century have become an invasive species.
Photo: Tom Murray, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist
An adult male fantastic least gecko (Sphaerodactylus fantasticus) in Guadeloupe
i'm actually not sure why sphaerodactylus are often called least geckos but i have to assume its just one of the least amounts of gecko you can get
That thing's bones must be so fucking small
Even in a post-capitalist, post-consumerist world, you still need to produce goods, as a result of this, you need factories because it is more effective to have a few people making a lot of clothes in a factory than every woman being forced to sit down and spin wool all day.
Some excellent comments here. The problem isn’t the factories that make manufacturing more efficient, it’s that the people working there often have poor working conditions, are only there because they have no better options, and don’t get any real benefit out of their employers’ success. Fix that, and we can absolutely keep the freedom that comes from having people specialise in specific skills, instead of having to do everything needed for individual survival ourselves